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Message-ID: <20150817160953.GA717@openwall.com>
Date: Mon, 17 Aug 2015 19:09:53 +0300
From: Solar Designer <solar@...nwall.com>
To: john-dev@...ts.openwall.com
Subject: Re: BENCHMARK_LENGTH bugs

On Mon, Aug 17, 2015 at 06:06:54PM +0200, Frank Dittrich wrote:
> On 08/17/2015 05:22 PM, Solar Designer wrote:
> > The "cq" format, presumably like many others, wrongly set
> > BENCHMARK_LENGTH to -1, thereby inhibiting the Many salts vs. Only one
> > salt benchmarks.  Yet it's a fast, salted format, for which separate
> > benchmarks are needed.  The attached patch corrects this.
> 
> If we fix that for several formats, can/should relbench somehow be
> changed to compare against "Raw:" speed instead of "Many salts:" speed,
> and vice versa? May be depending on a new option?

Maybe.  Feel free to propose a patch.

> Otherwise, we'll have several formats where we can't compare speeds...

Only between versions before/after this change.

Alexander

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